A prototype for an intelligent water management system for household use

• Autor(a) principal: São Mamede, Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Cortez, João, Martins, José, Gonçalves, Ramiro Manuel Ramos Moreira, Branco, Frederico
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/14003
• topic: Intelligent water management system; Internet-of-things; Household water management; Leak detection; Water metering

Water scarcity is becoming an issue of more significant concern with a major impact on global sustainability. For it, new measures and approaches are urgently needed. Digital technologies and tools can play an essential role in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of current water management approaches. Therefore, a solution is proposed and validated, given the limited pres- ence of models or technological architectures in the literature to support intelligent water manage- ment systems for domestic use. It is based on a layered architecture, fully designed to meet the needs of households and to do so through the adoption of technologies such as Internet-of-Things and cloud computing. By developing a prototype and using it as a use case for testing purposes, we have concluded the positive impact of using such a solution. Considering that is a first contribution to the overcome the problem, some issues will be addressed in future work, namely, data and device security and energy and traffic optimisation issues, among several others.